Plenty of teams have been linked with signing Andriy Yarmolenko in recent months. Arsenal, Stoke City, Liverpool and Newcastle United have all been credited with an interest.

It seemed that any hope of signing the player to a Premier League club however had gone today after he signed a new five-year deal at the Ukrainian side.

However he went on to admit that he could still leave the club and that the new deal was essentially signed to ensure that Kiev received a fair fee for his talents if he does leave, rather than his contract expiring at the end of the season.

They reported that a £15 million move had been agreed but then, a matter of days later, Sky Sports claimed Everton’s interest was dead in the water. Everton had started negotiations over a move too late and Kiev refused the deal.

Mathew Nash

I’m Mathew Nash a 27 year old graduate in Sports Studies and I have an insatiable love for sport. With a particularly keen interest for the madcap world of football I have always been known amongst friends as a beacon for bizarre sporting trivia and knowledge. My other passion is for writing and hopefully combining the two will create a superb and entertaining marriage that will create, divide and share opinion.Mathew is a correspondent for the NextGen Series, Ligue 1 and Primeira Liga.